Hunger cues

Dare I say this but does anyone else not know when their baby is hungry?!

I can't seem to detect any signs that my baby is ever hungry. She doesn't root, suck her hands, or cry, nothing that let's me know. She doesn't even wake up hungry looking for food!

She is ff and is fed about 7.30am, 11.30, 14.30 and 18.30 then dream fed at 11pm. She is offered 180ml and varies what she takes. Sometimes she takes it all and sometimes she doesn't! She's a big baby on the 90th centile so no concerns health or growth wise.

I know her tired cues, I can even detect her ever so slight tired whine in amongst her chit chat but cannot for the life of me pick up on hunger cues.

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Same, iv no idea if shes hungry, she tends to go from 0 to crazy so i offer the bottle first then go down the list, i cant tell if shes bored needs her bot changed or is sleepy or has a pain, all her cries are the same crazy loud as she can get wild someone is killing her screaming lol shes really chilled and chatty and super smilie then goes mental! When we have people round they are really shocked at her outbursts its quite funny to see them flapping x

Ha mine has the ability to go mental in 1 second but this is mainly.when she is overtired or being taken out of the bath.

As a small baby she would go crazy for food but since about 6 weeks old she never seems to show me any hunger signs. I'm sure she does, I just don't know what they are!

For example I've fed her today at 11.30. She's drained the full 180ml feed so must have needed it but prior to that wasn't moaning, wasn't crying and was quite content just doing her thing.

This morning again, up at 645 and bottle given at 730 but again no signs of hunger. She didn't even take 100ml and that was despite having last been fed at 11pm.

She is such a puzzle every day she changes. Like now. She's had a 2hour sleep the last 3 days over lunch. I thought I'll shut my eyes on the couch as I thought she'll have 2 hours again. Nope she's wide awake in her cot eating her hands so it looks like no day nap for me!

Nope, when he was first born he used to smack his lips together and suck his fists. Now he pretty much sucks his fists 24/7. He’s a pretty chill baby most of the time so I must be doing something right.

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